smooth operators

by an odd turn of events, the site has remained speechless for over 3 months which have been
actually very busy for me! how can this be explained? let's put the question differently: should
this be explained? well, there ya go.

in the meantime, a minor revolution has taken place in the background as our friend James Schidlowsky has taken up the role of head
archivist which i have been holding for ever since no type started. i will still be writing the
news & release descriptions for a little while, but it is now james who will be in charge of
keeping everything else to date: live announcements, online albums on other sites, sites, & so
on. Kevin M Krebs continues to manage the
software section, as he has for as long as i can remember.

having james as the main person in charge of maintaining the site means that it will be more
alive now. whereas i'm just too lazy to be trusted!

now, we've got no less than 4 *FOUR!* new, free online goodies for you all, not to mention (for
montréal residents) the return of the POSTrien, an amazing sound festival coming up in
september!

few acts are as relentlessly bombastic as morceaux_de_machines, érick dorion & aimé
dontigny's composite noise juggernaut from hell. but it may just be that nobody understands the
profound tenderness of their compositions. to the discerning listener, these expert streams of
cut-&-paste madness form a fantastic environment ripe for the most delicate discoveries. noise?
who hears noise? only if you're not paying attention! of course, this new CD most definitely kicks
ass from start to finish. what else to expect from the folks who brought you the frantic Cosmothérapie? in liberum arbitrium they set up a cosmic death match between heaven
& hell & it's not likely to be taken for a pastoral... 8 seriously twisted improvisations
that push computer music to its limits! says the all-music guide, it's "a serious contender to best
noise album of 2002." we didn't make that up. you know you've been waiting for it. well, here it
is.

(completists take note: érick & aimé wanted to keep their CD punchy & to the point, so
they left a few songs out from the initial recording sessions. two of these outtakes were already
featured on the Cosmothérapie release, but as a
gift to their fans, & for the sake of completeness, the duo is offering 2 more tracks not found
on the CD through our special liberum arbitrium
page. so if for some reason you're not happy with the choice of tracks, feel free to burn yourself
a customised version with the songs you like best!)

Oeuf Korreckt's music has been a part of
no type since the beginning of its history, from Leonard Nimoy to Shibuya
Without End. it's only natural that one of our first CDs would find him behind the wheel. the
definitive oeuf korreckt collection, Podweek is
quite simply the treat all of his fans would have been waiting for if they even knew it existed: 14
unreleased tracks from frédérick blouin's secret vault, plus an alternate version of 'osaka
commtech'. of course, you might be asking yourself: "why release these old tracks?" listening to
the album gives the reason why; the question becomes why frédérick hasn't released them before! a
good number of tracks off this new CD rank amongst my personal favourites of his. oeuf korreckt has
perfected the 'intelligent' video game sound, in a style that is patently his. but true to his
techno roots (see Surfing Secrets for a
case in point), he doesn't hesitate to go on an all-out gabber tip when needed. yet, some of the
melodies are so catchy that you will want to hum them all day only to be turned off by the sheer
complexity of some of the arrangements. Podweek
is the new sound of joy!

& now on to our free online releases! it's still the summer, time to lay back &
enjoy!

a long threatened release, the new camp socialiste is now available for
your perusal & reconstruction. if it seems complicated at first, read again. the premise is
simple, but the result is not. an exercise in interlocking asynchronous loops based upon samples
from no type all-stars, mixed up with a fair amount of chance operations, the result is quite
recognizably Campesque, if somewhat more jagged
than normal. but that might only be temporary, because the composition is open & someone might
just find a smoother way to perform it. of course, another might find that it makes too much sense,
& infuse some madness to the proceedings. we have no idea how it will end, do you?

Dick Richards is a wanted man. & yet,
inbetween all the touring in chic european cities, hanging out with expensive minimal techno stars
while working for the prime german labels who treasure his genuine funk & basslines of illicit
depth, he still finds the time to hang out with us lowly, uncool no type dudes. but here i am
mentioning dick richards, when this is Ramon
Llull we are talking about. now, ramon llull is serious about ambience. it has to feed off the
walls, & build up into an architectonal scripture of sorts, whereby what you hear is the
pushing up & down on the wave form itself. now, maybe we're reading too far into it, but it
sounds good!

initiated in 2000 under A_dontigny's
impulse, the sine fiction collection continues to expand with a third volume by no less than no
type's new man in charge James Schidlowsky
& a fourth volume coming up on the next update. finally, one might say, as this constitutes the
first online entry for james since his no type debut Previous>>Next, & the first with all new material. sine
fiction, if you remember, is a collection of mini-albums inspired from a given science-fiction
book. in james' case, the book of choice is john brunner's the shockwave
rider, a tale of information technology gone bezerk. places & situations of the book are
thus adapted by our composer who has made a point of dabble in things he doesn't usually do: the
results are a stunning example of james' versatility. it might even make you want to read the
book!

it is one patent injustice that we still have to introduce Octopus Inc despite two CDs of luminous beauty released on
kracfive, the label he has founded with his friend colongib. noah sasso might be an enigma to some
simply because he is nearly impossible to genre-peg. not only does he never do the same thing
twice, what he does never sounds like anything you've heard elsewhere to begin with. vague
reference points to weird electronic acts from köln or california do not even begin to describe the
magic. Subcon Sound Museum, his first no type
release, exemplifies this. five tracks of lush collages, structures of texture that are full of
detail & bristling with life. don't wait; revel!

POSTRIEN RETURNS WITH A VENGEANCE! |

if you like no type, you will want to be in montréal from september 11 to 14, 2002. an
unbelievable all-star cast will be present to make this new edition of POSTrien an experience to
remember. the mere fact that all these excellent artists will be in town at the same time...
exciting doesn't begin to describe it.

just be there every night at 10h30 PM, at the funky (yes! funky!) casa del popolo. the price is
a measly 7 bucks & we should be ashamed to make it so cheap! if you arrive early, don't worry!
there will be music to hear & people to chat with. but mostly, you should check out the rien à
voir festival across the street at the espace go, a prestigious electroacoustic music event we're
associated with. note that their tickets include a free entry to the same day's POSTrien event.
their main guest this year is new rephlex star (& compositeur électroacoustique emeritus)
robert normandeau!

i cannot keep under silence the package that arrived to the no type covert audio operations
headquarters the other day, containing 6 new throat productions on 3" CD-R, all featuring amazing
packaging. & once you start collecting them, i swear you will want them all! the first 4
releases are short 20 minute pieces, all of them fairly different but all residing within the vast
realm of abstraction with a tendancy towards minimalism... the culprits (pardon: authors!) are
throat main man V. V., tralphaz, sawako & our
very own Cal Crawford... audio enthusiasts
take note: this is a very promising collection if you're into exquisite sound consumption that is
not, you know, more of the same.

the fifth & sixth throat releases can be downloaded on the web: they consist in a double 20
minute diptyque titled 60" Somewhere & 60" Somewhere
Else. the physical version (which i suppose is available from the throat web site...) brings
them together inside a lovely piece of packaging. the first CD collects 20 unprocessed field
recordings of 60 seconds of length. the second, as you might have guessed, has them all processed
to death within the same time restriction. the audio of course matches the looks, & what more,
you can find a lot of expected & unexpected no type names on there! i'll let you have a look
for yourself... buy one as a gift to your lover.

NEW CLAUDIA BONARELLI CD CREATES CONFUSION EVERYWHERE |

a new bomb has been launched by the swedish label mitek onto the unsuspected world: it's
Claudia Bonarelli's first CD _everything
happens only a certain number of times_. speculation runs wild as to the identity of our favourite
black bloc of microdub, some going so far as to link it to either mikael stavöstrand & hakan
lidbo or 'a group of net.artists based in eastern europe'. but anyone who knows what's good for
them will focus on the sound, & the sound is quite something. hey, it might not be entirely
groundbreaking in 2002 (what is?) but CDs of this quality happen only... well, you know where we're
getting at. onto that topic, no type is releasing a claudia bonarelli 10" very soon which is
essentially a packet of concentrated audio love for your stereo. & not to forget the online
album that started it all, Boredom Is
Counterrevolutionary, still available for free downloads.

NO TYPE HISTORY IN THE MAKING: THOSE THIN TRACKS ARE FINALLY AVAILABLE! |

Thin's 2nd no type release, the 30-minute
Snap-on Grooves didn't just represent the end of
an era (or more accurately the end of the 6000/9000 series), it was also the beginning of a period
where the label really began to expand stylistically, with folks like Tomas Jirku or 833-45 joining up. but back to thin--in those days, there was some
project of making CD-Rs of no type albums, whereas online versions would miss a few tracks to uh
'entice purchases'. that stupid idea (which was mine, for the record) is now thankfully history,
but a few old releases have remained so crippled despite not being available any other way. this
was the case for Snap-on Grooves (1999), at least
until now, as these tracks are now available for download again! this short full-length recording
is notable as it turned out to be mike curtis' most achieved musical statement so far, after which
our composer became too tragically busy with real life matters to pursue his visions any further.
thin's follow-up & last album yet, Moody Hat
(out in late 2000), is, however, a very worthy (albeit criminally short) addendum. add to that the
old-school Trashcan Land EP (featuring the
first-wave no type remix posse!) & lo & behold, you've got the complete thin oeuvre. here's
to hoping for new tracks from mr. curtis in a foreseeable future!

& speaking of historical releases--the next few months will see the release of a "lost"
Period Three album, recorded between
Halogen & Folder, & titled _adhesive_. this was originally set to appear on
no type under a different title, as release 6014. to confuse matters a bit, the re-release (if you
can call it that) will bear that same number, thus ironically resurrecting a series that has been
dead for the last 3 years. another lost episode slated for release is Tomas Jirku's barely-released & highly singular _bleak_ CD-R
from 1999, though there are actually plans to make this a legit CD as this is great material
despite the age. what do you all think? tell me sometime...

I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH BOOKS ON TAPE |

if that's also your case, just go to subverseco, that's where it all happens! (notice that
there's a new morceaux_de_machines
release posted on there as well! ah, but there really are surprises until the end in these
newsletters!!) of course, you'll also want the upcoming no type 10" featuring BoT's end-of-summer
hit 'hey typical!'

& while you're at it, don't forget to pay a visit to nishi & slapart for more downloads
to fill your hard drive with.

NEXT UPDATE |

we'll keep it short this time--there's an upcoming albums page for this purpose after all! but
there is, as you might guess, quite a lot in store, notably (& topically as we're mentioning
stores) in the 'tactile' department. in addition to the aforementioned cookie from agent bonarelli,
you can count on a pristine blue 10" by Books on
Tape, a stunning new CDEP from Headphone Science (wait 'til you hear it!), & a lot
more coming up in general.

on the online front, the goodness continues with, amongst others, Kanovanik's long awaited debut release & the fourth sine
fiction volume, this time featuring Julie
Rousse's interpretation of isaac asimov's _foundation_. also expect some changes in the site
where needed, though no 'grand redesign' for a little while... or maybe, who knows. :)

stay tuned, thanks for bearing with us, we'll be back with more & better...